Open Game Day Thread--Detroit v. Houston
by Tim on Oct 19, 2008 1:00 PM CDT
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If things go according to plan, your Houston Texans will be a mere two (2) games under .500 this evening. Of course, we've seen very little go according to plan this season. Yet I am optimistic today, if for no other reason than the emotional lift a certain bad mofo will provide with his return.
As always, leave your pre-game, in-game, and post-game ranting and raving in the Comments below. A second game day thread will open on the main page at 4:30 p.m. CDT, so move the action there at the appropriate time. GO TEXANS!
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Late start
Now I’m just bored. Cincinnati v. Pittsburgh isn’t exactly a beauty to watch. Come oooonn…..
So I saved myself the trouble
…and looked up the Spurs score. Sorry, amigo.
My team won yesterday — I’m hoping to go 2 for 2 on the weekend.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 2:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Also
Dallas is taking it up the poop chute. Awesome.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Awesome
doesn’t even come close to describing how good the Cowtoys losing huge to the Lambs makes me feel. Wade Phillips (doesn’t he look like a grown-up Bam-Bam from the Flintstones?) is so overrated.
"...and if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surely means that I don't know". SL
by Southern Lion on Oct 19, 2008 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions
True
But I have a hard time hating on the guy, considering how he has holy bloodlines and all.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Dude.
The score doesn’t even do the game justice. We lost two players to red cards, and one to the hospital.
I honestly didn’t think the season could get any worse.
Also – what’s up with the Dutch league table? Feyenoord at 4pts? Some whacky team at the top I’ve never heard of? I plan on hitting up an Ajax game in the next few months (being in Leiden and all).
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 2:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Wow
That sucks. I’m telling you, you should have kept Martin Jol.
And 010 being at the bottom of the table is nothing more than a case of poetic justice. Like when the Cowboys finish dead last. It’s awesome.
FWIW my mom was born in Leiden and both my parents studied there. It’s a nice place.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 2:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Leiden
So I’m assuming you got Ajax from your pops? Feyenoord seems to be the popular team around here.
It’s a great town – I really like it. Close enough to Amsterdam and the Hague that I can get my fill of the city if I want. But still plenty to do here in town. Good school to boot.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Actually
My dad is from the Hague. The story of how I got into Ajax is a long one, and I don’t think anyone here wants to hear it. I’m worried I’ll get banned if I keep talking roundball.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions
And the Cowboys are getting crushed
Surely this is a good omen.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 2:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Agreed.
We should keep our love of a pansy, greasy-haired, dive-happy sport filled with dirty foreigners under wraps. (Though Matt appears to have a West Ham logo on gchat – which begs the question… West Ham? Really Matt?)
And the pounding the Cowgirls are taking… is like a beautiful chorus of angels.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 2:55 PM CDT up reply actions
I got crazy nerves right now...
It feels like the whole season is hanging in the balance.
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Strangely
I’m the most relaxed I’ve been before a game this season.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Yin and Yang
Lets hope we keep it balanced -
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It'll probably feel like that all season
At least until we get to 11 wins. After that, a loss won’t feel so bad.
by Tailgate Andy on Oct 19, 2008 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
No need to worry.
Victory Weekend 2.0 is in full swing. Did you SEE the ass-pounding that UT administered? My friends, there is a new season ahead of us.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Not to mention the Cowgirls
Wasn’t St. Louis supposed to be bad this year?
by Tailgate Andy on Oct 19, 2008 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Imagine
If you could bottle the tears of Cowgirls and Sooner fans? I’d drink it every day.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions
Watching the look on Romo's face
Is like that feeling I get after taking a five pound turd. It’s beautiful.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Two of the three criteria have been met for sure
UT win
Dallas loss
Just need a win from the home team and we’ll be all good.
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Why are the Bengals still on my screen damn it?
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Not being broadcast in SA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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OK
I can’t find a stream and rhe game’s about to start.
Anyone? DisplacedTexan?
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:05 PM CDT reply actions
my p2p
Appears to be failing. You can stream the radio – but it’s usually a play or two behind.
I’ve got a slingbox – only thing that keeps me sane.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Holy Shit!
Not going to show here!!!! Holy fuck, Holy fuck, Holy fuck…
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Can't... find... stream...
Green kryptonite!!!!!
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:07 PM CDT reply actions
If it makes you feel better
My shitty fucking slingbox has cut out now 3/3 during actual plays.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Hello sir
Please explain the West Ham picture.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Random
I don’t have much room to speak, being a Spurs fan. But West Ham? Why?
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Totally random
I wanted to see a Premier League game while in England on my honeymoon, West Ham was in town and playing the weekend we were in London, and the fans cracked me up singing “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” during intros. I was hooked.
-
Also, I just figured out who you are. I am slow.
Yay, sports.
Glad we cleared that up!
EPL games a freaking riot. Nothing quite as fun as singing “That’s why you’re going down” to Watford, the day after New Years.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Apparently
Steve Slaton is kicking ass.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:09 PM CDT reply actions
Motherfuckincockgoblinsonofawhoreasslickingfuckfacecumsukershiteater!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm stuck watching my stepdaughter
My girl is at the library studying… I need her to come home and let me hit the bar.
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You're not missing much
Just the best offensive drive the Texans have had this year.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions
I got in touch w/ her
Thank god she is sympahthic to my Texans obsession. And with that I’ll be out. Be back after the game…
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Keeper
Not a lot of girls will cook you lasagna.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:21 PM CDT up reply actions
That was quick
OK, Lions’ O — say hello to my little friend, Mario.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:12 PM CDT reply actions
Passion
You could see it in that kick coverage. Team has an extra fire under their ass today.
Hello, Dunta! I <3 you.
First non-Mario sack
of the year amirite?
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:18 PM CDT reply actions
No, someone else had one.
The team has 10 now. Mario only has 8.
by Tailgate Andy on Oct 19, 2008 3:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Lol @ 'only'
But I know you were trying to say.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Dunta in for the first time today.
Orlovsky was too scared to throw at him. That and if he had waited another second, Mario would have eaten his soul.
If we historically didn't suck so hard
I’d feel sorry for these guys.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:19 PM CDT reply actions
Remember AJ?
Glad Schaub remembers him now.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Green Veteran
Did anyone else just find that little nugget hilarious? Ahman Green is the perfect veteran back-up to spell dominant Steve Slaton? That’s why we paid him that good money!?!
It works
But so far there’s no stream.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions
damn you, dt!
If it doesn’t work, I’m gonna fly over there, and you will personally pay for me to get drunk. in a bar.
and we both know how expensive that would be.
:-)
Oh no!
Anything but that! Having fun at a bar!
Trust me, I’m seeing this game waaaay different than all yall.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions
If we keep playing this well
I’m gonna be worried about overlooking Cincy next week.
by Tailgate Andy on Oct 19, 2008 3:31 PM CDT up reply actions
wahoo come on!
I love internet! can watch the texans from crappy old england!
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wooo - lots of research crap stream though
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/detroit-lions-football
Love the Texans, Never been in Texas
If I didn't already
have a first-born, I would name him flanno.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:40 PM CDT up reply actions
hey no probs
Come on texans, i flew home early today just to watch this haha
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For all of you without reception,
be glad that you didn’t witness that last play. Faggins let his man go deep, and the only thing that saved it from being a huge play was French Toast catching up to an underthrown ball and not getting called for pass interference.
he just mishandled the snap.
Nothing that we did, it was just ugly. Slaton with another 10 yard run btw.
by Tailgate Andy on Oct 19, 2008 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Stevie Wonder gets a 1 yard run
for the first down. No gain on the first down run. He did lose his helmet again though. Seriously, can we have a clinic for football players so that they can learn to properly secure their chinstraps?
It's a good game
When you can start joking about the player’s chinstrap.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:43 PM CDT up reply actions
i deleted the install file but
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/detroit-lions-football this is being streamed, and there’s even a chat if you feel like heckling lions fans
Stevie
Using his Inner Vision to find the hole.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:49 PM CDT up reply actions
thats some good driving!
he could play prop forward with hustlw like that!
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You could just switch your allegiance to the Bundesliga
and not have to worry about any of it. Granted, you wouldn’t be able to find anyone else that likes your teams, but it’s a small price to pay. Plus, when you wear a Kevin Kuranyi jersey, no one has any idea how bad he sucks.
by Tailgate Andy on Oct 19, 2008 3:54 PM CDT up reply actions
They're coming out of the woodwork now
F-side for life.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions
hey ive been texan since the start
ive just never been to texas haha
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Tough start
To the old firm this year.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:58 PM CDT up reply actions
More like
Chris Jack.
Gaw, we’re so cosmopolitan here.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Its ok
We outted Matt earlier. Classy outfit round here.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 3:52 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't think so.
If they have, it would have been in the first season.
by Tailgate Andy on Oct 19, 2008 3:52 PM CDT up reply actions
OK
Now is NOT the time to start sucking.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 3:59 PM CDT reply actions
Favorite quote from the stream
“hey, 7 field goals and this baby is tied!”
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:00 PM CDT reply actions
If I didn't understand that sentiment
I would be laughing a lot harder.
by Tailgate Andy on Oct 19, 2008 4:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Who was
that mysterious guy with the dreads in our secondary?
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:01 PM CDT reply actions
It's begun.
The references will never end now.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 4:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Can't stand that homo
Give me Shane Williams, or better yet, Gavin Henson.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:03 PM CDT up reply actions
No
That would be Dan Carter.
And Wales are champions of Europe.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:05 PM CDT up reply actions
I love sports
And my wife is Welsh.
I was married in Swansea.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions
International Man of
Mystery.
FWIW I’m a born and bred Houstonian.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Munster are Champions of Europe
wales won the 6 nations.
munster better than nz
Love the Texans, Never been in Texas
Munster
Didn’t even win their own league.
And by your logic, Llanelli and Swansea are both better than NZ.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:13 PM CDT up reply actions
the celtic league doesnt matter.
if u had any clue about rugby u would no that.
the 2nd string players get played in most celtic league games.
the h cup is the most importnt thing and we are champions!
Munster beat the all-blacks in the 70s and we still talk about it :)
If u are gonna talk about a sport know somethin about it!
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Rugby smackdown?
BRB has reached all new heights of multi-culturalism!
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Yo dude
Take it easy. We’re all friends here.
Of course the Celtic League matters — if you don’t finish high enough you can’t play in the Heineken Cup, right?
I’ve been to international rugby matches, etc.
And I know that Munster beat the All-blacks in the seventies. So did Lanelli and Swansea (before regionalization). Swansea beat Australia a couple of years ago.
If you are gonna talk about a sport know something about it.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions
wrong!
Here in ireland u only had to finish higher than one other province to qualify for europe and seein as connaght and ulster are shit we could put out our 2nd string.
good for u u’ve been to matches! ive played for munster at thomand park under 18 and 20’s before my injury so i think i know what i am talkin about. uve probably never played rugby.
We only say we’re better than NZ for a joke its a common saying.
knowledge is the bomb!
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Well
I played but not at that high a level. And only until I messed up my knee.
In any event, i wasn’t trying to get your dander up, amigo, so let’s dial the invective down a notch, eh? I have no desire to get into it with a fellow Texans fan.
FWIW I’ve never heard anyone say that the Celtic League doesn’t matter — and you have to acknowledge that position in the league is relevant, even if Munster and Leinster are head and shoulders better than the other Irish regions.
But I know a fair bit about rugby, even if I didn’t play at a very high level.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions
And
I think O’Gara would probably trade the Heineken cup for a Grand Slam, don’t you?
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Are you using tvants?
Because http://www.ustream.tv/channel/detroit-lions-football seems to be in near real time for me.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions
It is
But it takes forever to load and I’m impatient.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Look on the bright side
We’re probably going to cover.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:06 PM CDT reply actions
Dunno the play-by-play guy...
but I owned JC Pearson in a pickup basketball game in KC about five years ago. And I am not good at basketball. I was amazed that he was ever a pro athlete in ANY sport.
Yay, sports.
I feel
Like I’m catching up with an old friend… for the first time in a few years.
by DisplacedTexan on Oct 19, 2008 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Yea
From the abyss to the summit in two short weeks.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Great Game
Too bad I’m stuck building a fence. Seems like every time a come inside to check the game, we are in the red zone.
Me
And i watched it a bunch at work this week.
by tehGrindCrusher on Oct 19, 2008 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/detroit-lions-football
has got v political. wow there are some very ignorant people in the world
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